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Malaysia, Visa boost for healthcare tourism
22 hours ago ago from world tourism journal
http://thestar.com.my By YUEN MEIKENG KUALA LUMPUR: Foreign patients entering Malaysia for medical treatment on emergency “visas-on-arrival” (VOAs) will be allowed to convert their entry status to a social visit pass in an effort to promote healthcare travel. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the patients would be able to do so on the recommendation of private hospitals registered under the Health Ministry. “To facilitate ...
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11 hours ago ago from Bao Viet Nam
Vietnamese citizens say they are weary of long line-ups and treatment delays at the country’s hospitals. In many healthcare centers, patients are forced to share a bed with two or three other people and face postponement of urgently needed care. Hospital managers say that overcrowded medical clinics puts patients at risk, but feel they are helpless to change the situation. Parents and their children resort to ...
Related contentCorporate mergers should come alive – at least in Healthcare IT | Fuld's Competitive Musings
5 hours ago ago from Fuld’s Competitive Musings
Despite congressional wrangling over healthcare, stimulus funding could have unintended but positive consequences sooner than expected As the healthcare lobbying machine cranks up the noise during the August congressional recess, many of the healthcare players have already figured out their strategy – and that is to merge with one another. We recently ran a strategic war game that played out the competitive strategies among leading ...
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5 hours ago ago from Fuld’s Competitive Musings
While car sales are languishing, another industry – one with potentially explosive growth – the nascent Electronic Medical Records industry has adopted the same approach as car dealers. G.E. just announced a 0% financing scheme on June 15. IBM has a very similar plan. What is this market about and why the aggressive financing pitch? In our recent public war game, The Battle for Healthcare Information , we demonstrated that dozens ...
Related contentApplication filed with the ECHR on behalf of five patients who died at a Romanian institution in 2004
6 hours ago ago from Dumping grounds for people
via OSMHI website On Friday 11 December 2009, the Center for Legal Resources and INTERIGHTS filed an application with the European Court of Human Rights on behalf of five patients who died at the Poiana Mare Psychiatric Hospital in the period January to February 2004. The hospital has a sad reputation for its record of human rights abuses perpetrated against its residents. Over the two years 2002-2003, 155 patients died at the ...
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RI gov wants $4M cut to hospitals amid recession
12 hours ago ago from U.S. News
RI gov wants $4M cut to hospitals amid recession PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Gov. Don Carcieri has proposed cutting millions of dollars meant to reimburse hospitals for providing health care to the poor during a recession that has cost thousands of Rhode Island residents their jobs and employer-provided health insurance. The latest budget proposal from the Republican governor would eliminate $3.7 million in funding to four hospitals - South ...
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